Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Dropbear 2011.54 through 2018.76 has an inconsistent failure delay that may lead to revealing valid usernames, a different issue than CVE-2018-15599.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.3
Infoleak
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

The recvmsguserauthrequest function in svr-auth.c in Dropbear through 2018.76 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability because username validity affects how fields in SSHMSGUSERAUTH messages are handled, a similar issue to CVE-2018-15473 in an unrelated codebase.

First published (updated )

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